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It also assumes industrialization similar to our own. A past civilization would most likely have developed entirely different technologies that we may not know
by ropiwqefjnpoa 7y ago
It also assumes industrialization similar to our own. A past civilization would most likely have developed entirely different technologies that we may not know what to look for.
- zaphirplane 7y agoThis reminds me of https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/daniel_patrick_moynihan_182347 https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/daniel_patrick_moynihan_1... “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” they wouldn’t have developed their own physics and universal constants. Of course if they were tens of 1000s of years ahead of us and deliberately cleaned up who knows what’s possible. We could be the evolved pet like in red dwarf
- adrianN 7y agoSome technologies seem too universal to assume an industrial civilization would miss them. Things like ceramics for example are easy to make, very useful and would likely survive in the geological record.
- koheripbal 7y agoFossil fuels are the same. It burns. It's obvious it burns. The internal combustion engine was inevitable.